Audio: Yeshiva Rockers Az Yashir Live in Studio

Interview and live performance with Az Yashir, a band of young yeshiva students from America

3/24/2009, 11:17 PM

A7 Radio's "Israel Beat Jewish Music Podcast" with Ben Bresky

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Interview and live performance with Az Yashir (www.az-yashir.com), a band of young yeshiva students from America studying in Jerusalem. Hear the inside story of Lone Soldier, their song about an American immigrant's Gaza war experience in the Israeli Defense Force. The members talk about their stuggles in growing up religious in the modern world and the unique Kesher yeshiva program that helped them through it. For full text interview click here: The Great Battle of the Yeshiva Student Bands.

Ben Bresky is a music journalist and recording engineer living in Jerusalem. He hosts The Israel Beat Jewish Music Podcast interviewing a wide range of Jewish and Israeli musicians from Carlebach to klezmer, from hasidic to trance. For full archives visit http://IsraelBeat.blogspot.com